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CVE-2023-53364 (GCVE-0-2023-53364)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-17 14:56 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:43

Title

regulator: da9063: better fix null deref with partial DT

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: regulator: da9063: better fix null deref with partial DT Two versions of the original patch were sent but V1 was merged instead of V2 due to a mistake. So update to V2. The advantage of V2 is that it completely avoids dereferencing the pointer, even just to take the address, which may fix problems with some compilers. Both versions work on my gcc 9.4 but use the safer one.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-01-14 18:45 UTC

CWE

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa402a3b553bd4829…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30c694fd4a99fbbc4…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
Linux	Linux	Affected: 04a025b17d83d07924e5e32508c72536ab8f42d9 , < aa402a3b553bd4829f4504058d53b0351c66c9d4 (git) Affected: 98e2dd5f7a8be5cb2501a897e96910393a49f0ff , < 30c694fd4a99fbbc4115d180156ca01b60953371 (git)	guessed
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.4.7 , < 6.4.12 (semver)	guessed

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